Windows Write

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Windows Write

Windows Write in Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Developed by	Microsoft
OS	Microsoft Windows
Type	Word processor
License	MS-EULA
Website	Microsoft Windows

Windows Write was a simple word processor that came with Microsoft Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, and the Windows 3.x series. Throughout its lifespan it was minimally updated, and is comparable to early versions of MacWrite. Early versions of Write only worked with Write (.wri) files, but with the modernization of Microsoft Word for Windows in 1989, and the introduction of Windows 3.0 the following year, Write became capable of reading and composing early Word (.doc) documents. With Windows 3.1, Write became OLE capable.

Windows Write is similar to the modern WordPad, which was introduced in Windows 95, and like WordPad, Write was more advanced than Notepad (though Notepad's simplicity is an intentional feature to make basic text operations faster and easier) and was considered a modern word processor. However, Write did not have the many features of software such as Microsoft Word. Write had automatic pagination which WordPad lacks.

As its default program icon was a pen having just finished writing a capital letter A, the program was referred to by some users as 'A-Write'.

In Windows 95 and later versions of Windows, the Windows Write executable (write.exe) simply executes WordPad.